Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

academicsltd.co.uk

Teacher Jobs & Education Recruitment | Academics Ltd

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

187 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

318 ms

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About Website

Visit academicsltd.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Academics Ltd content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about academicsltd.co.uk

Academics is a national education recruitment agency specialising in teacher jobs. Visit us to find your next role in primary, secondary, FE or SEN teaching

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Key Findings

We analyzed Academicsltd.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 187 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

academicsltd.co.uk performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

academicsltd.co.uk

187 ms

www.academicsltd.co.uk

1284 ms

js

85 ms

webfont.js

27 ms

jquery.min.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Academicsltd.co.uk, 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Academicsltd.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 466.1 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

697.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Academicsltd.co.uk main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 490.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 60.8 kB

  • Original 74.2 kB
  • After minification 71.1 kB
  • After compression 13.4 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 60.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 490.2 kB
  • After minification 483.0 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Academics Ltd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 185.4 kB

  • Original 347.5 kB
  • After minification 298.2 kB
  • After compression 162.1 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 185.4 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 212.6 kB

  • Original 251.9 kB
  • After minification 231.4 kB
  • After compression 39.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Academicsltd.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 212.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (53%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Academics Ltd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

academicsltd.co.uk accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

academicsltd.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

academicsltd.co.uk SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Academicsltd.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Academicsltd.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Academics Ltd. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: